Manfred Scherer

Manfred Scherer 2011

Manfred Scherer (born February 7, 1951 in Freinsheim , Pfalz ) is a German lawyer and politician ( CDU ). Manfred Scherer was Interior Minister of the Free State of Thuringia in the Althaus II cabinet from May 8, 2008 to November 4, 2009 . From 2010 to 2019 he was a member of the Thuringian state parliament .

Scherer attended school in Speyer . He studied law in Mannheim and attended the administration college in Speyer . In 1975 he became a trainee lawyer in the Zweibrücken higher regional court district. After the second state examination (1977) he worked as a judge at the regional court in Kaiserslautern . In 1988 Scherer became a judge at the Zweibrücken Higher Regional Court . In 1990 he moved to Erfurt, initially as a judge at the local district court . In 1993 he became President of the Erfurt Regional Court and, from 1995, a deputy member of the Thuringian Constitutional Court and a full member in 1996 . He worked at the Constitutional Court until he moved to the Ministry of Justice.

From 1999 to 2001 he was State Secretary in the Thuringian Ministry of Justice, then in the Ministry of the Interior, from 2004 back in the Ministry of Justice. In 2006 he was elected President of the Thuringian Court of Audit by the Thuringian Parliament.

After the resignation of the Thuringian Interior Minister Karl Heinz Gasser , Prime Minister Dieter Althaus nominated Manfred Scherer as his successor on April 23, 2008. Scherer took up this position on May 8, 2008. Scherer came under fire in 2009 in connection with the deportation of Felix Otto from Cameroon . Otto lived in Germany for nine years, most recently as a rejected asylum seeker, and was sentenced to a record eight months for repeatedly violating the residence obligation. Pro Asyl described the condition for asylum seekers and tolerated rejected asylum seekers as harassing and the penalty against Otto as the highest known penalty for the offense. Despite petitions and demonstrations, Scherer saw no reason to reconsider the decision to deport the otherwise innocent Otto. He was flown out in August 2009.

After the state election in Thuringia in 2009 , in which he had unsuccessfully applied for a direct mandate in the constituency of Erfurt IV , Scherer was not considered again as a minister in the Lieberknecht coalition cabinet . On May 1, 2010, he became a member of the Thuringian state parliament as a replacement for Dieter Althaus, who had resigned his mandate due to work in the private sector. In addition, after leaving the ministerial office, he took on a legal position in an Erfurt law firm. In the state elections in Thuringia in 2014 , he was given a direct mandate in the Kyffhäuserkreis I constituency . He did not run for the 2019 state election .

Web links

Commons : Manfred Scherer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Short biography . Thuringian Parliament.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Members and former members of the ThürVerfGH on thürverfgh.de (accessed on March 22, 2018)
2. ↑ Deportation of activists against residence obligation. Accessed July 1, 2020 (German). 
3. ↑ taz.de: Voice activist is deported , August 25, 2009